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Smithsonite

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When it comes to individual crystal size, there are few places in the world that can rival Tsumeb mine for its Smithsonite, and bizarrely most are in Africa too. This miniature specimen from Tsumeb is a pure crystal aggregate, or cluster of extremely large rhombic Smithsonite crystals. These display a rich toffee-colour and classic waxy, to resinous lustre, but also present the added detail of gently rippled crystal faces, brought about by many overlapping platy, or lenticular crystals. The continuation of these surfaces have also produced some slightly rounded crystal edges and corners, but not all. Individually, the Smithsonite crystals reach an impressive 2.5 cm end-to-end and although some of them are not complete around the back of the sample, their front faces are in superb condition. Ex Kessler Collection

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Species
SmithsoniteAbout Smithsonite →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions4.5 x 3.9 x 2.6 cm
Listed on04/11/2026
Locality
Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →
SKUCC54110

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Smithsonite
Mineral guide
Learn about Smithsonite
ZnCO3 with botryoidal and crystalline forms, silky to vitreous luster, pastel hues from cobalt to yellow; localities boost collecting appeal.
Smithsonite
Regional guide
Smithsonite from Tsumeb, Namibia
is one of the defining collector minerals of Tsumeb: not merely because it is common there, but because Tsumeb turns a usually massive or botryoidal zinc carbonate into a locality signature mineral with uncommon crystal variety, depth of color, and association. Tsumeb smithsonite spans the familiar apple-greens and blue-greens of copper-bearing material, soft pink to violet-pink cobaltoan and manganoan-looking rhombs, yellow-brown and chocolate-brown iron-rich crystals, pale grey to white crusts, colorless to translucent rhombs, and rare red-pink material from the deeper oxidized workings. The best specimens combine sharp rhombohedral or scalenohedral crystals with the sculptural mineralogical theater for which Tsumeb is famous: galena-rich sulfide matrix, sugary dolomite, black tennantite and pyrite ore, cerussite, mimetite, malachite, wulfenite, duftite, dioptase, and willemite.